Emily B. Waite Colored Graphite Drawing on Paper Human Muscular Anatomy

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Colored Pencil on paper

A colored graphite drawing of musculature by well-known artist Emily B. Waite (1887 – 1980). Depicted in red and green tones is the musculature of the human body from a frontal and rear perspective. This work is not signed; it is not matted and remains unframed.

Emily B. Waite is best known for her oil portraits, still life paintings, and etchings. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she studied from 1908 through 1910 under Philip Leslie Hale and Francis Luis Mora. In 1910 she received the Paige Traveling Scholarship and traveled extensively for two years throughout France, Spain, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Italy, studying and copying master paintings. Waite’s work is represented in the collections of numerous distinguished institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C.; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among many others.

Condition

- minor wear to edges of paper, including small holes from previous hanging.

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16BOS020-366